What we do

Our founder Skip Ellsworth circa 1970

We offer a 2-day class that will show you how to build your own log home from scratch, without a kit. This class is for average men and women who want to build the best log home for the least amount of money. The vast majority of our students have never built anything before.

Your log home won’t settle like kit log homes do. And your home will be one of the most environmentally-friendly log homes in your neighborhood. You won’t need to apply toxic chemicals every year to prevent it from rotting.

Despite using a kiln dried timber product instead of logs, kit homes will still experience settling due to the wood losing additional moisture

Building log homes right costs less than doing it wrong

And the best part is: you can do it for a fraction of the price of hiring someone else (or buying a “kit”). We’ll show you all the pioneering techniques to save money, meet code, and get your project done with the minimum of effort. Worried about lifting big logs? Don’t panic, there’s a trick for that, and it doesn’t require a crane.

Sherri and Debbie built a log cabin that costs $20,000 to build (total construction costs). See more pictures of their beautiful home in our student gallery

Skeptical? That’s okay too.

If you still aren’t sure this is for you, no problem. You might want to:

Featured Student Feedback

"Building this house has been the time of our life!! We would really like to thank LHBA for all that they did to help us achieve this amazing feat...

We are now mortgage free!!! Wow what a feeling. I never imagined that it could be done the way we did it, Mortgage free that is... 2 years ago when we sat in that classroom I never even thought that 2 years later I would be typing this in my beautiful mortgage free home...

Thank you LHBA!!!"

Steve & Gretchen Bradbury & Family Read more about the Bradbury family project, and about their family blog here

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LHBA member Peter Andersen was diagnosed with a terminal disease half way through building his house. Click here to see how LHBA members and local companies are rallyng to help.

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